Although the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) strongly discourages spanking, at least half of parents admit to physically punishing their children. Some research suggests that as many as 70-90 percent of mothers have resorted to spanking at one time or another. A new study published in the journal Pediatrics may cause parents to think more carefully before laying a hand on their little ones.

Researchers examined data from more than 34,000 adults and found that being spanked significantly increased the risk of developing mental health issues as adults. According to their results, corporal punishment is associated with mood disorders, including depression and anxiety, as well as personality disorders and alcohol and drug abuse. They estimate that as much as 7 percent of adult mental illness may be attributable to childhood physical punishment, including slapping, shoving, grabbing, and hitting. The study reports that spanking ups the risk of major depression by 41 percent, alcohol and drug abuse by 59 percent, and mania by 93 percent, among other findings.

“I have to call BS on this, I believe the fact we don’t spank as much is a big part of the problem we have now. “
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I agree.
This is just more liberal leftist psychobabble.
I am now in my late 60s, but remember receiving modest
corporal punishment in my early youth.
I think I was far better adjusted then the leftist freakazoids that are running the country today.

I think the reason for America’s demise today is from the
new age nuts who have decided that ANY punishment is child abuse.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

Now, couple that with Dr. Benjamin Spock - who, through his book, did much to change how parents discipline their children and how society perceives spanking - with the knowledge that Dr. Spock ran for President in 1972 on the 'People's Party' ticket.

I really wish the Socialists in America would just go to France, the Commies would just go to Cuba and Sean Penn would just go to Hel...er...Venezuela.

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posted on 07/03/2012 5:17:58 AM PDT
by liberalh8ter
(If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)

Psychology/psychiatry is not necessarily an abomination, as suggested by Olog-hai. The primary issue is the dearth of Liberals controlling the education of the subjects in higher education.

I was forced out of the psychology department in college due to my “radical views” in suggesting such things as Kinsey being an immoral philanderer and Jung being a failure in everything else so he “made up” analytical psych. I still managed to get a minor in psych, but it’s not helped me anywhere in life except to make positive deductions about the personal lives of girls, a great party trick but useless in “the real world.”

Don’t get me started on Neitzche.

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posted on 07/03/2012 5:22:31 AM PDT
by rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)

Spock is a piece of shit! My 10 year old cousin is a nightmare because my psychotic aunt refuses to do anything when he does wrong. It’s always, “Tell me why you’re doing this, son?” or “How does that make you feel?”

The little demon went through this phase where he would run up to the men in the family, punch them in the balls, and run away laughing like a little bastard sprite. He stopped when I grabbed him by the hair after doing it to me (landing a pretty good shot) and slammed him on the grass while outside tossing the football. Little bastard went running inside crying, and my aunt proceeded to castigate me for “disciplining” him. I said, “You won’t, so I did.”

That didn’t go over well, but hey, the little chit doesn’t play that game anymore.

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posted on 07/03/2012 5:27:15 AM PDT
by rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)

The key word, of course, is LINKED. Coincidental vs causal. How about a different interpretation: children who will eventually be diagnosed as having a mental illness are more likely to require discipline and respond better to physical than emotional discipline?

“Although the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) strongly discourages spanking...”

This is why you have to ALWAYS treat your pediatrician, just like school teachers, as a threat to your family. My kids have been asked by him, when alone with him, whether there were any guns in the house...and this is a nice guy. This is also why you have CAREFULLY TRAIN your kids to give the CORRECT ANSWERS to possible questions. So, if junior is asked (by anyone) whether he’s spanked, he simply says NO!. And the way to be sure that he says no is to make it clear to him that if he says yes, he’ll get a new mommy and daddy - always works. And, obviously, never leave junior alone with the doctor, particularly when young.

There are people you can trust and people you cannot trust. Doctors and teachers are at risk of losing their licenses and possible jail time if they don’t tell the authorities about family behavior that meets an ever-changing standard set by the state, especially in blue states.

My sister was a Spock devotee, as well. Her child was a little ball of annoying energy that we were all supposed to just deal with. One day, he was jumping on the couch and I asked her if she was going to discipline him. She told me that thanks to Dr. Spock, she doesn't need violent discipline; she ‘reasons’ with him. A little while later, he jumped up on and then through a glass coffee table. Thankfully, he escaped virtually unharmed but I asked my sister if she now understood why reasoning with a 3 year old is pointless when they need to be protected from themselves.

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posted on 07/03/2012 5:43:23 AM PDT
by liberalh8ter
(If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)

Correlation is not causation. Did these morons set their agenda aside long enough to consider that kids with mental illness may be less responsive to milder forms of discipline than healthier kids, so the direction of causality may be the reverse of what they assume?

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posted on 07/03/2012 5:45:55 AM PDT
by Pollster1
(A boy becomes a man when a man is needed - John Steinbeck)

Although the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) strongly discourages spanking...

This is why you have to ALWAYS treat your pediatrician, just like school teachers, as a threat to your family. My kids have been asked by him, when alone with him, whether there were any guns in the house...and this is a nice guy. This is also why you have CAREFULLY TRAIN your kids to give the CORRECT ANSWERS to possible questions. So, if junior is asked (by anyone) whether hes spanked, he simply says NO!. And the way to be sure that he says no is to make it clear to him that if he says yes, hell get a new mommy and daddy - always works. And, obviously, never leave junior alone with the doctor, particularly when young.

There are people you can trust and people you cannot trust. Doctors and teachers are at risk of losing their licenses and possible jail time if they dont tell the authorities about family behavior that meets an ever-changing standard set by the state, especially in blue states.

So, be careful out there.
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All physicans esp PCPs have this leftist drivel as part of their practice. Physicans are as much part of the State as social workers or nurses.

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posted on 07/03/2012 5:52:22 AM PDT
by Chickensoup
(STOP The Great O-ppression)

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